Questions tagged [web-applications]
Web applications are applications that are accessed over the "web", which can mean the Internet, or an internal network (an intranet).
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Best Practice for Managing Payment Subscription Tier Status
I'm trying to understand the best way to approach how to manage and update a user’s payment subscription status in a web application. Let’s say you have a subscriptions table in a database that is ...
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How to design for API use cases that need different data from the same table?
I am building a web application. This application is meant to be a home for player rankings and tournament results for a competitive community. I have planned to do this in three layers: a database to ...
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How to manage user session in WebSocket
I'm developing a WebSocket server in Go where I read messages from clients and forward them to a tunnel. I want to integrate session management:
Check if a user's session is still valid.
Handle ...
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Advice for pooling DB connections with serverless
I have a great, working web application which uses SvelteKit, DrizzleORM, a PostgreSQL database running on Amazon RDS. It is hosted on Netlify, which means that the "backend" consists of one big ...
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Fixed vs dynamic properties for a system with customization and changing requirements
Edit: writing a more specific question, as per comment, I guess my question boils down to: are dynamic properties designs appropriate for applications with rich UI and complex business logic (as ...
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Are using website builder's, like Squarespace, OK to use when building a web-app that needs unique external components?
I'm a non-technical person starting a web-based project and would like some feedback as to whether or not building a website using a web-builder service like Squarespace will result in re-work once I ...
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How to stop showing SQL queries of a web application in Browser's Inspect elements?
I have a web application written in express.js and php 8.2. Currently, anyone can right lick in chrome or edge chromium browser and go to inspect element>>network tab and click on data ...
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Server-side ad insertion and video downloaders
Video streaming sites like YouTube are experimenting with server-side ad insertion
Server-side ad insertion differs from normal YouTube ad insertion techniques primarily in how ads are delivered to ...
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Deciding between logic on the front-end or back-end
Before I begin, I want to say I am very new to this and I am a junior but also solo developer with no seniors to ask for guidance. Please feel free to explain to me that I am not approaching it ...
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What is an optimal system design for tracking product views per user that is scalable?
I have a web application that contains products and users. There are 10,000+ products and 100,000+ users to give a sense of the scale that's required.
For some application specific reasons, I need to ...
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Best way to approach connection between game server to client connection with Django web server as middleman
I have a web game design question. I am trying to build a multiplayer web game with non-intensive graphics (ex tic-tac-toe, chess). I am trying to figure out how to take already authenticated users in ...
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Concrete implementation of MVP with "dumb" view
I recently started designing my first MVP-app. I like the idea of having a "dumb" view to be able to cover as much of the code with unit tests.
The app I build will be an app to create ...
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Distributed caching system that scales and enables real-time UI updates?
I have a NextJS app for which I want to cache data from our backend APIs to reduce the load when we have high volumes of concurrent users scrolling through (or search) years-worth of historical data.
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Is it a good idea to serve a Single Page Application as a static site?
I've built a small single-page web application in React and seen that it's possible to serve the app as a static site on something like S3.
Previously, I considered using Nginx, but as this is lower ...
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Processing messages sequentially in SQS FIFO
I need to process status changes related to an entity in a sequential order. Not in parallel.
Will an SQS FIFO Group with MessageGroupId = UserId be enough?
Let's say I have the folowing messages:
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